belt drives are powered by a rubber band. direct drives are powerd by a motor. that's the basic explination.

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yeah i knew that i meant how it affected the dj...

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okay.. belt drives usually will not be able to hold a pitch accuratelty for long periods of time.. also.. they're typically not nearly as accurate on pitch settings in general..

for play only they are probably fine.. but if you are interested in DJing.. stay far far far away from them.

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Originally posted by pixyjunket okay.. belt drives usually will not be able to hold a pitch accuratelty for long periods of time.. also.. they're typically not nearly as accurate on pitch settings in general.. for play only they are probably fine.. but if you are interested in DJing.. stay far far far away from them.

Well Belt drives are definetaly worse then direct, but if you know what you're doing you can perform as good on a belt as on a dd.

to the person that posted above me, it is not true that you can play as good on a belt drive as on a direct drive..

simply because of torque issues... (belt drive torque = sux)

also, if you wanna dj using pitch which you have to.. rofl..

belt drives CANNOT keep their pitch, so djing is basically out of luck.. therefore you cant keep a steady mix..

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Originally posted by djeso Well Belt drives are definetaly worse then direct, but if you know what you're doing you can perform as good on a belt as on a dd.

it's not a matter of knowing what you're doing or not.. it's just a plain fact that belt drives do not have the proper torque to be used for proper dj use.

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Originally posted by gOuRYeLLa~! to the person that posted above me, it is not true that you can play as good on a belt drive as on a direct drive.. simply because of torque issues... (belt drive torque = sux) also, if you wanna dj using pitch which you have to.. rofl.. belt drives CANNOT keep their pitch, so djing is basically out of luck.. therefore you cant keep a steady mix..

see what i mean?

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some guy told me about this... A belt drive is basically powered by a motor in the corner of the turntable. The let-down of having a belt drive is if you scratch, their is a bit of a lag becasue the motor is in the corner and their might be a bit of a time delay. Plus the belt gets worn out, then all scratching goes to hell. As for direct drive the motor is located directly in the center of the turntable and their is no belt. The motor just powers the platter. So therefor its better for scratching and there is no wear and tear. It basically boils down to preferance, but i assume most djs prefer the direct drive.


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Originally posted by djeso Well Belt drives are definetaly worse then direct, but if you know what you're doing you can perform as good on a belt as on a dd.

Gotta agree partially with him though. Ok for scratching or other "platter intensive tricks" they won't cut it, but if you do plain mixing, beltdrives can be used to make good mixes, with a little more effort. Ok the torque isn't that great, you'll just have to handle it more carefully (with feather hands ). The pitch isn't accurate/constant. So what? Ever heard of pitch riding?

I've learned to spin on beltdrives, and seriously I can say it helped me a lot. I've learned to pitch ride with beltdrives, and altough you don't need to do that as much on DD's, it comes in handy sometime (records without steady BPM for instance). I also learned to handle my records more carefully, even with warped records it's perfectly possible to spin normally.

Don't get me wrong, I'll be the last to say that beltdrives are better than direct drives. But saying that you can't do sh*t with beltdrives is utter nonsense. With all respect, but sometimes I feel like guys that started on good TT's (and with that I mean the upper range of DD's, Technics, Vestax, good Numarks and Gemini's, ...) are a bit spoiled. Imho you only learn the real value of good gear when you used crappy stuff before... But that's only my opinion.

Agreed, I learned to mix on (don't laugh) Soundlab DLP-1600's (OK, laugh if you want), and I believe that if i can spin on those (and I did, very well, I made a very well received mix CD) then you can mix on anything. Of course it was a cakewalk to move up to Technics when I finally managed to afford them!

My first TTs are technics 1210 with Vestax 275a mixer and cmx-3000 cd player.

I'm spoiled. Sue me. ;-)